RE: Thinkpad 600 Power Management Issues (HD turned on and off)

Eric,

I do have the apm option in the kernel exactly as you have listed below,
and I also added both of your apm entries to my rc.conf, but the problem
still occurs.

Thanks,
Kenan

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Hedström [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 10:05 AM
To: Chris Shenton
Cc: Kenan; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Thinkpad 600 Power Management Issues (HD turned on and off)

Do you all have apm enabled in your kernels and rc.conf files? My 560X 
does not do this, running 4.5-release or -stable from last weekend. I 
have apm enabled in the kernel (removed the word "disable"):

device          apm0    at nexus? flags 0x20

in dmesg it shows up thus:

apm0: <APM BIOS> on motherboard
apm: found APM BIOS v1.2, connected at v1.2

and in rc.conf:

apm_enable="YES"
apmd_enable="YES"

The reason I ask is that in my old Thinkpad, a 701C, the hard drive 
would just shut down when I closed the lid (making the system quite 
unhappy, getting the filesystem yanked out from under it), until I 
enabled apm. It's running 4.5-release. The 701C reports its apm as v1.1.

hope this helps,
Eric


Chris Shenton wrote:

> "Kenan" <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> 
>>I have recently installed 4.5-stable on a Thinkpad 600X (BIOS version
>>ITET53WW), and the hard drive sounds like it is being turned on and
off
>>every few seconds.  This was happening after the default install, and
it
>>is still happening after the custom kernel build.  (I haven't done
>>anything specific for power management in the custom kernel other than
>>leaving the "device apm0 at nexus?" option, which was there in the
>>GENERIC anyway.)
>>
> 
> Have you run any other version of FreeBSD without this problem? 
> 
> I have had the same problem with my Thinkpad 560X ever since
> installing 4.1; 3.x did not do this, nor does NT (which I only boot
> for TurboTax, honest :-) See the bug report from 2000-12-14:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/23548
> 
> I've now got 4.4 or 4.5 on it and it's still sounding like it's
> spinning up, then spinning down the disk, with a click as if it's
> parking the heads.  Makes it *very* slow for disk intensive work like
> building a kernel.  When installing the OS, I notice this first when
> it says "Making devices...".
> 
> I did install the latest BIOS from IBM (then) but it was no help.
> 
> Perhaps there's something malconfigured in my BIOS, but I've tried
> poking at various settings to no avail.  I haven't heard a lot of
> other people complaining so I'd love to hear what other 560X and 600
> users have configured such that they're not affected.
> 
> Clues welcome. I'd really prefer to run FreeBSD than any other OS.
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